Geforce Drivers - Confused

[cdrobsonjr at netscape.net]

Sorry, I'm afraid I came checking in too late to catch your earlier
post. Could you provide a link?
Doug


Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:03:26PM -0500, cdrobsonjr at netscape.net wrote:
>> I was reading this thread because I am impacted similarly.
>> However, what is not covered here, and which I would like to know is,
>> while these instructions do in fact remedy getting nVidia drivers
>> working for the newer kernel, running the nVidia install script
>> modifies the old setups of the previous install on the old kernel.
>> I want to be able to switch back to my old kernel, or in fact any
>> kernel I may choose to keep on my system, and have the nVidia
>> drivers at the ready upon booting into any kernel without the
>> necessity of going through the steps as outlined in the post
>> below.  There must be a way to set up a separte set of configuration
>> files which each kernel can refer to without having to write over
>> one common one that nVidia drivers can reference upon startup.
>> This is my quest.  Anybody out there care to help or point me
>> somewhere which addresses this need?
>
>That is exactly what rpm packages are for. Non-intrusive and
>reversible installations. I answered to this thread in another post on
>how to get rpms for various kernels and various nvidia drivers
>concurrently installed. Have a look there.
>
>> Doug
>> Clint Harshaw <clint at penguinsolutions.org> wrote:
>>
>> >Jim Radford wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I've managed to get the afternoon off, so I'm taking the time to upgrade my
>> >> kernel (using up2date) to  2.4.22-1.2166
>> >>
>> >> However, I know that last time I upgraded, I had to reinstall my Geforce
>> >> drivers - so I'm looking to upgrade them to the latest version as well.
>> >>
>> >> I currently have the following installed:
>> >>
>> >> [root at mailgate new]# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>> >> nvidia-glx-1.0.4496-0.fdr.10.1
>> >> kernel-module-nvidia-driver-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl-1.0.4496-0.fdr.10.1
>> >> kernel-module-nvidia-driver-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl-1.0.4496-0.fdr.10.1
>> >>
>> >> Firstly, I can't recall where I got those rpms from :(
>> >>
>> >> Secondly, I grabbed a URL from another thread on this list and went to look at
>> >> the rpms there: http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/nvidia-graphics/
>> >>
>> >> There are so many to choose from, that I'm confused as to which to get.
>> >>
>> >> I have an Althlon XP 1800 and a Geforce 4 Ti (I forget which model)
>> >>
>> >> Can somebody please tell me what to install and ease my aching brain.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >Jim:
>> >
>> >Here is set of instructions that work for me when I install an updated
>> >kernel and need to get my nvidia driver to play with the new kernel.
>> >
>> >1. Point your browser to this URL:
>> >http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
>> >
>> >2. You can select the most recent driver there. (as of this writing,
>> >it's 1.0.5336)
>> >
>> >3. Download it, and note the location of where you put it. Write it down
>> >on some paper, 'cause you'll need to navigate there soon.
>> >
>> >4. Reboot your machine in the new kernel. X will fail and ask if you
>> >want to view the logs, or try the configuration. Answer "no" to both of
>> >them, and you'll go to a text-based login.
>> >
>> >6. login as root and navigate to where you stored your downloaded driver
>> >installation file.
>> >
>> >7. type this:
>> >sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --add-this-kernel
>> >
>> >9. when the previous instruction is complete, type this:
>> >sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1-custom.run
>> >
>> >10. reboot your machine and X will be using the new driver.
>> >
>> >There is also a more complete set of instructions at this URL:
>> >http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/custom_nvidia.html
>> >
>> >(I didn't have to do the CC="gcc32" for this latest driver, but I did
>> >for an earlier driver installation.))
>> >
>> >Clint
>> >
>> >
>>
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